Operated Crane Rental
Crane and operator together, ready for the lift — from tight infill sets to multi-day plant work, run by NCCCO-certified hands.
40yrs
Years in business
12,000
Crane rentals delivered
16,000
Crane dispatches
16,000
Safe trips home
AC&T Top 100 Largest Crane Companies in North America
NCCCO Certified operators & riggers
▲ Over 40 years on the boom
From the first lift
to the last one home.
Four decades in the same mountains — the cranes and the colors change, the standard doesn't. Archive prints and recent jobs, fading one into the next.
01 What we do
Six disciplines.
One crew that brings it home.
Certified & Engineered Lift Plans
Documented, signed-off lift plans — including full 3D modeling — so every pick is engineered before the boom leaves the ground.
Commercial & Industrial Steel Erection
Structural steel set true and plumb for commercial builds and industrial structures, backed by our sister company Modern Construction Inc.
Heavy & Oversize Transport & Storage
Moving and staging the loads other haulers won't touch — oversize, overweight, and time-critical — with secured storage when you need it.
Industrial, Hydrocarbon & Mining Support
Turnaround, outage, and production lift support for the plants, pipelines, and mines that power the region — schedule-driven, safety-first.
Rigging & Signal
Certified riggers and signal persons who plan the connection, control the load, and keep the picture clear from pick to set.
02 / Certified & engineered lift plans
We don't just show up.
We engineer the lift first.
Every critical pick is engineered before the boom leaves the ground — load radius, boom geometry, counterweight, ground bearing and crane clearance zones worked out in advance, in-house. Four decades of doing it has bought us something the rest of the field doesn't have.
△ Capacity & range figures shown are illustrative — never a statement of lift-readiness.02.1 / The edge
We built our own technology.
Nobody else in these mountains has it.
Most crane companies run the same off-the-shelf lift-plan app. We don't. Modern drafts and checks its own lift and site plans on tools we built ourselves — CAD dimensioned to the quarter-inch, plus a live site-planner and a ground-bearing engine that settle the crane, its working radius and its bearing pressure before we ever roll a truck.
01
In-house lift engineering
Every critical plan modeled and checked on tools we built ourselves — not an app anyone with a login can download.
02
Proprietary capacity intelligence
Our own library of crane load data, queryable in seconds — the right machine and configuration settled before we ever quote.
03
Digital dispatch & documentation
Crane, crew, rigging and paperwork coordinated on systems we engineered — the reason the plan and the jobsite always match.
02.2 / In the field
The plan is only worth the set that follows.
Bridge beams over water, rooftop units, structural steel set true and plumb — engineered first, then placed by Modern crews. No stock, no mockups: our own iron, our own jobsites across the mountains.
Bridge-beam set
Precast girder · over water
Rooftop unit
HVAC set · over the roofline
Structural steel
Set true and plumb
03 / Commercial & industrial steel erection
Steel goes up once. We set it true.
Beyond the hook, Modern Construction Inc. erects the structure itself — commercial and industrial steel, towers, process equipment and heavy industrial builds, plumb and bolted to spec.
Sister company — Modern Construction Inc.
01
Self-support tower steel erection
Steel erection
02
Precast bridge-beam set
Heavy set
03
Surface-mine heavy lift
Industrial build
04
Industrial tank & vessel set
Heavy set
05
Structural steel erection
Erection support
Steel erection
02
Precast bridge-beam set
Heavy set
03
Surface-mine heavy lift
Industrial build
04
Industrial tank & vessel set
Heavy set
05
Structural steel erection
Erection support
Talk to a project lead
1·877·272·6351
Operated crane rental, engineered lift plans, and full steel erection from one team — Modern Crane & Rigging with Modern Construction Inc. · 474 Mare Creek, Stanville KY.
02 Why Modern
The standard we lift to is everyone home.
Forty years in Appalachian terrain teaches you to plan the lift you can't see coming. Sixteen thousand dispatches and sixteen thousand safe trips home aren't a slogan — they're the discipline behind every plan we hand a customer. More than one has called them the best lift plans they've ever seen.
Owned fleet
350ton350ft
Capacity and reach we own and operate.
Need to go bigger? We reach beyond our own iron through a national rental network — securing the right machine for the lift, wherever it lives.
03 Service territory
Built for the mountains we work in.
Eastern Kentucky
- Pikeville
- Paintsville
- Ashland
- Morehead
- Lexington
- Hazard
- Harlan
Southern West Virginia
- Williamson
- Logan
- Chapmanville
Southwest Virginia
- Richlands
- Norton
- Wise
Dispatch never closes
Our job is to get you home.
Everything else — forty years of cranes, transport, and erection — is just how we do it.
Call dispatch — 24/71-877-272-6351